Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockaunnacurraha, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunnacurraha
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.37628, -8.30719
- SMR number
- LI049-148----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, 160m N of townland boundary with Ballyfauskeen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SE and N by a post-1700 field boundary. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 18m N-S; 22m E-W), incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary, intersected at S and NE by post-1700 field boundaries running NW-SE. Earthwork visible as a circular area enclosed by a tree-lined bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.